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More consistent LuaJIT performance

December 12, 2018 1:00PM

A year ago I wrote about a project that Cloudflare were funding at King's College London to help improve LuaJIT. Our twelve months is now up. How did we do?...

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Technical reading from the Cloudflare blog for the holidays

December 22, 2017 2:17PM

Year in Review Product News LavaRand DDoS Geo Key Manager

During 2017 Cloudflare published 172 blog posts (including this one). If you need a distraction from the holiday festivities at this time of year here are some highlights from the year....

John Graham-Cumming

Cloudflare Wants to Buy Your Meetup Group Pizza

November 10, 2017 3:00PM

Developers JavaScript php LUA Go

If you’re a web dev / devops / etc. meetup group that also works toward building a faster, safer Internet, I want to support your awesome group by buying you pizza....

Andrew Fitch

ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison

November 08, 2017 8:03PM

SSL OpenSSL Compression Speed & Reliability LUA

One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware....

Vlad Krasnov

Helping to make LuaJIT faster

October 19, 2017 8:38AM

Developers Programming LUA

Programming language Virtual Machines (VMs) are familiar beasts: we use them to run apps on our phone, code inside our browsers, and programs on our servers....

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February 21, 2017 1:40PM

LuaJIT Hacking: Getting next() out of the NYI list

At Cloudflare we’re heavy users of LuaJIT and in the past have sponsored many improvements to its performance....

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Javier Guerra

LUA , Programming , Speed & Reliability

May 09, 2016 9:17AM

First Bay Area OpenResty Meetup

On March 9, 章亦春, known to most of us as agentzh, organized the first Bay Area OpenResty Meetup at CloudFlare's San Francisco office....

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John Graham-Cumming

LUA , NGINX , Programming , Events , MeetUp

April 09, 2015 6:32PM

Scaling out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics using CitusDB

When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits....

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Albert Strasheim

Analytics , SQL , Postgres , Kafka , LUA

February 28, 2014 9:00AM

Introducing lua-capnproto: better serialization in Lua

When we need to transfer data from one program to another program, either within a machine or from one data center to another some form of serialization is needed....

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Jiale Zhi

Data , Speed & Reliability , Cap'n Proto , LUA

December 22, 2013 5:00PM

Keeping our open source promise

Back in October I wrote a blog post about CloudFlare and open source software titled CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street which detailed the many ways in which we use and support open source software....

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John Graham-Cumming

OpenSSL , Open Source , LUA , Developers , Deep Dive

October 07, 2013 7:00PM

CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street

CloudFlare uses a great deal of open source and free software. Our core server platform is nginx (which is released using a two-clause BSD license) and our primary database of choice is postgresql (which is released using their own BSD-like license)....

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John Graham-Cumming

Open Source , Programming , NGINX , GitHub , LUA

December 08, 2012 8:46PM

Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua

At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules......

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Matthieu Tourne

NGINX , LUA